One of my buddies went with a Lenovo Y510P 755m SLI and loves it. However, should point out that the 860m is based on Maxwell architecture and is nearly 2x faster then a single 755m. While SLI would allow the 755m SLI to perform on par or slightly better then a single 860m two 755m SLI TDP is 100w while a 860m is like 50w.

In general its better to grab a stronger single gpu over multiple slower ones. Your performance is dependent on the game and driver and you never get 1:1 scaling.

Are you sure that this is on heavy load on both of em? sounds unnatural for the 860 to be as fast as dual 755 while keeping twice as much lower Watts usage

EDIT: I just checked on notebookcheck.net and GPU boss that the TDP of the 860 is about 60-75, while the dual 755m takes about 70-80, but unless he don't mind the power cable to be plugged in during gameplay I say the dual 755 is about 10% faster so that's good enough reason to buy it since you can't upgrade GPU later on

Then your best bet would be to go for a laptop with an 860m in it. It equals the performance of those duel 755m's and it matches a 770m in most games with far less power draw and heat being pumped into your lap. link. That link shows how it compares to the others. It will give you far less headaches then duel cards, you'll have a dvd drive and a cooler running gpu. I don't have time to go looking for deals but I'm sure since your in the market for one you can take the time to go looking around the major online retailers for a good deal/price or research different kinds of laptops. If your going to be spending that much you should be taking more then a few days of searching, but try to see if Amazon prime is still free you might be able to get a sick deal from them.

Then your best bet would be to go for a laptop with an 860m in it. It equals the performance of those duel 755m's and it matches a 770m in most games with far less power draw and heat being pumped into your lap. link. That link shows how it compares to the others. It will give you far less headaches then duel cards, you'll have a dvd drive and a cooler running gpu. I don't have time to go looking for deals but I'm sure since your in the market for one you can take the time to go looking around the major online retailers for a good deal/price. If your going to be spending that much you should be taking more then a few days of searching, but try to see if Amazon prime is still free you might be able to get a sick deal from them.

Just get a portable optical drive because these days optical drives don't really have a purpose with digital media and flash drives have pretty much replaced them.

I can say the y510p is a great choice. My brother the GT 750m model and he loves it. There are some downsides, like the trackpad not being the best and some models have bad wifi cards. As for gaming goes, it's great and the price is better than most gaming laptops I've seen.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152442 around 1440 with tax

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8895438&CatId=3982 around 1150 with tax

guess it depend how much i want to pay

i dont order from site ive never heard before xD

How about this one: http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_1199&item_id=069032

It's the same laptop only with 860m and using notebookcheck as a source the difference between the 770 and the 860 is 1% difference in actual gaming performance, I guess their architecture is phenomenal

EDIT: the tigerdirect doesn't allow me access it says:

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You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?" on this server.

lol and u still need to had the taxe xD but tbh that could still work i have more then 1.5k it was just a set maximum

really nice build

Yeah it's a decent budget gaming PC, for your mom, a multimedia PC I'd recommend something like this: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3uwZT you can upgrade CPU to A6, A8 or even A10 but that's not neccesary, you can add SSD of 60Gb to boost up OS login and improve browsing, programs etc.

do we really need an hdd she could only use an ssd and it would be fast she doesnt even know how to download lol

and i got some extra hdd laying around

kinda need a monitor and a (desk chair ima take care of that xd) mb keyboard mouse

Yes you can install SSD only, but take attention, she won't be able to download tons of big files, if it's browsing only sure install 60Gb SSD with Windows and try to not update OS too much, I don't know how much Windows updates take but I use 8.1 stock without any updates and it takes about 35Gb. (works like charm)

EDIT: As for monitor, I can recommend you on Asus, Dell, LG and Samsung as brands.

Are you sure that this is on heavy load on both of em? sounds unnatural for the 860 to be as fast as dual 755 while keeping twice as much lower Watts usage

EDIT: I just checked on notebookcheck.net and GPU boss that the TDP of the 860 is about 60-75, while the dual 755m takes about 70-80, but unless he don't mind the power cable to be plugged in during gameplay I say the dual 755 is about 10% faster so that's good enough reason to buy it since you can't upgrade GPU later on

The 860m power usage depending on the model the 2gb TDP is 50w while the 4gb version is 75w. 755m has a tdp of 50w so x2 = 100tdp max for the 755m SLI. the 755m SLI is a good setup but if you cab grab a single gpu that's nearly as fast and you dont have to worry about having SLI working fully to get the performance you want.